Rebecca Sullivan Photography, Landscape Photography, Fine Art Photography, Fine Art Prints, Iceland, 

PALOUSE: AUTUMN

Faded to Brown

The eastern side of the Palouse, near the Idaho/Washington border. Although the combine harvester was commercially available as early as 1882, the Palouse region adopted the use of combines later than other areas. It wasn't until 1930 that almost all of the farms in the area were using them. Previously, organized harvesting teams of 120 men and over 300 mules and horses would move from farm to farm as the crops ripened. Because farmers depended so heavily on these specialist crews, most of them had not invested in a large number of horses themselves, which were required to pull the early, heavy combine models.